Table 4b below shows the top five needs in each of the three data types (current, time series, and projections). Only two data sets show up in more than one category: aerial/satellite imagery, and building quantities and types, both ranking highly for both current and time series data.

Table 4b.

What Planners Need: Data Top Five in each Category Ranked by % of Respondents

What other data needs do you have to best support your planning practice / analysis / research? (Question #13 — 100 free responses)

AERIAL/REMOTE

Aerial imagery

Maryland DNR coast line change vector file generated from the MDDNR air photos....pretty rudimentary, but evocative to many.

IR Images showing flora. Temperature images showing heat islands. Having these two images in time series for both winter and summer would be very helpful for research on micro climates that reduce energy use.

Change of use (ie; from industrial to mixed use, or habitat reclamation)

Condition of infrastructure- streets, lines, etc.

Municipal service district boundaries

power and utility transmissions impacts on environment and residences

location of state facilities

Development capacity, current data

Government land with managing agency, current data.

MILITARY

The military is currently developing studies on the future of compatibility between the military mission and the needs of the civilian. The military uses the coastal datasets to help determine the future US Fleet operations in the coastal areas to the Operation areas off-shore.

PARCEL INFORMATION

Up to date parcel information is important, including the location and ownership of active/abandoned bridges, and any submerged ship wrecks, or buried utilities.

superposition of future changes in sea level and shoreline on current coastal bridge and roadway network geographical layout

TRANSPORTATION

Transportation data, traffic counts

Transportation infrastructure

Traffic

transportation infrastructure current and projected

Transportation counts

Transportation related data

traffic flows

WATER

river channel migration - time series

Tsunami inundation areas. Maybe current. Tides can be pretty extreme and I wonder if at the highest tide of the year would a tsunami be even worse than at average or a low tide. Inundation lines are needed and probably should show worse case scenario.

vulnerability, where would sea level rise first have an effect, cost-effectiveness of different options related to seal level rise

Groundwater recharge and water use

Storm surge projections for current and future conditions.

Stormwater infrastructure, time series.

WIND

Wind forces

tidal and off-shore wind resources

ZONING

zoning in the coastal zone

NONE/INCLUDED ABOVE (17)

NOT APPLICABLE (4)

NON-TOPICAL COMMENTARY

For many practice areas, we really need both the current data and the time series to place information in context for future planning.

I don't know what time-series or projections mean, so I selected 2 for all.

All listed above saying "none"

Answers of "none" above indicate data our agency collects and maintains. We need it, but not from an outside source.

Many of the items I marked as projections would also be very useful as current and time series data.

For most items marked "time series," projections are also needed.

Margin of error analyses

Any data would be useful. If not time series data, the most current available is critical.

Primary need is to make sure available data can be meaningfully used at the local level.

LIDAR is needed

Most of the current data is available in some form, but not always easy to use if you are not a DIT person or have it in a form the fits with the system being used. As a planner, projections are helpful to plan for the future. Most current data is easily available on-line.

In each time series data selected, I would also want current data first; so it's really 2 and 3

SURVEY CRITIQUE

#12 ov poorly worded and formatted.

#12 was hard to answer - not sure I understood the 3 categories

In this section I would have chosen multiple types of data sets for different categories.